Is It The Right Time to Upsell to Your Customer?

SaaS Tattler Issue 91 - Is it the right time to upsell to your customer?

Upsells. They're an integral part of Customer Success, but they've always led to somewhat of a sensitive topic: Is now the time to upsell? How can I approach this while still maintaining my trusted, genuine relationship with my customer? For this very reason, we’ve dedicated this week’s SaaS Tattler to the world of upselling -- the best approach for CSMs to go about it, and what constitutes as the right time to make the move.

If it's so much easier to sell to your existing customers than acquire new ones, why do so many SaaS companies struggle in this area? Simple: it's a question of timing. In this article, Emily Smith reveals how to determine the perfect time to upsell to your customers.

"The initial sale is critical, but it's just the tip of the iceberg." - Lincoln Murphy

At times, customer-centric companies tend to make this assumption that sales is, at best, antithetical to their culture, and at worst, sleazy. In this feature, Emily Triplett Lentz outlines the best approach for customer-first businesses to take when considering to perform the upsell.

The upsell might be the most underrated play in sales, but you can’t just reach out to every single customer six months after they’ve purchased to see if they want another ride on the merry-go-round. Thus, Leslie Ye presents the five situations that can reliably be used to identify good opportunities for upselling.

About the Author

Trisha is a Digital Marketing Intern at Amity, who will begin to pursue her HBA degree in the fall. She is passionate about creative design, social media, and technology, and is completely obsessed with avocados.